Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The Shaping of Somali Society:

Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600 to 1900
Front Cover
0 Reviews
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982 - Social Science - 311 pages

From inside the book

 

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Related books

The collapse of the Somali state: the impact of the colonial legacy
The collapse of the Somali state: the impact of the colonial legacy
Cabdisalaam M. Ciisa-Salwe
Snippet view - 1996
The Benaadir past: essays in southern Somali history
The Benaadir past: essays in southern Somali history
Lee V. Cassanelli
Snippet view - 1973
Patricians of the Benaadir: Islamic learning, commerce and Somali urban ...
Patricians of the Benaadir: Islamic learning, commerce and Somali urban ...
Scott Steven Reese
Snippet view - 1996
All related books »

Contents

The Societal and Historiographical Background
9
Plates
12
Toward a Regional Approach to Somali Pastoral
38
Copyright

14 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

abbaan Abgaal Abiker Abokor Afgooye agricultural Ahmed Ajuraan alliance Arab Factor Ashir ASMAI Baardheere Baraawe Baydhabo Benaadir Biimaal camels caravan Cerulli clan-families client-cultivators coastal colonial Darandoolle darwiish dervish district dominant drought early East Africa economic Eelay elders Ethiopian evidence export Ferrandi Gareen Geledi Gobroon grazing groups Guillain Haji Hawiyya herds Hersi Hintire Horn of Africa I. M. Lewis imam informants interior Islamic Italian Jubba Jubba River kinsmen land leaders lineage livestock lower Shabeelle Lugh Luuq major Marka Mereerey migrations Muhammad Abdullah Hassan Muqdisho Muslim nineteenth century nomads northern occupied Ogaadeen Omar oral traditions Oromo Osman pastoralists period precolonial reers region religious resistance Rome saints settlement Shabeelle River Shabeelle valley Shaykh Shaykh Hassan Sherif Silcis slaves social Somali clans Somali coast Somali history Somali oral Somali pastoral Somali Peninsula Somali society Somaliland sources southern Somalia sultan tariiqa territory tion towns trade twentieth century typically Wacdaan warriors Yusuf Zanzibar

References to this book

From other books

A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism & Politics Among the Northern ...
A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism & Politics Among the Northern ...
I. M. Lewis
Limited preview - 1999
Networks of dissolution: Somalia undone
Networks of dissolution: Somalia undone
Anna Simons
Snippet view - 1995
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

Disaster vulnerability: Scale, power and daily life
Ben Wisner, Henry R Luce - 1993 - GeoJournal
African Famines and Food Security: Anthropological Perspectives
Parker Shipton - 1990 - Annual Review of Anthropology
An Overview Of Drought Strategies And Land Use In African Pastoral ...
Gufu Oba, Walter J Lusigi
Education in Somalia: History, Destruction, and Calls for ...
Ali A Abdi - 1998 - Comparative Education
All Scholar search results »

Bibliographic information

QR code for The Shaping of Somali Society
TitleThe Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600 to 1900
Ethnohistory (University of Pennsylvania Press)
AuthorLee V. Cassanelli
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1982
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized11 Sep 2008
ISBN0812278321, 9780812278323
Length311 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan